Past glories, we all should be proud of our past glories. I am not only referring to the glories of one's country, but it also can be related to a family honorable achievements, take the Kennedy family, for example, and the line of political figures around the years. It can be the opposite and one would be ashamed of his or her family's doing - does families of former dictators ring a bell?
However, there is a big difference between the word "past" and the word "present", adding to that the word "future". We will never honor the glory of the past if we don't do something similar to that.
No one can challenge the facts and history of what beautifully shown in the above video. No one dare to say that Muslim civilization had golden era where it was a portal for the whole world to learn science, literature, business, and many other related aspects of life.
However, anyone can challenge Arab and Muslim countries today and say: what are you achieving now to honor the glory of your past?
I am sure that there are people today, in our time who thought like me and did something. I can mention with honor people like Mustafa Al Aqad, Farouk El-Baz, Naseer Shamma, among many others?
But is this enough for someone to honor his heritage or the legacy of the country he is coming from?
Or is it that people must work harder, prove to themselves first they are unique then to others?
I think that for many a past golden age can be considered now as something else: living through dark ages, and in the hands of its people this civilization would flourish or let it be roaming in such dark times.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Dark Ages, But Not Forgotten Civilization
Posted by MixMax at 2:50 PM
Labels: 1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets, Islam, Muslim civilisation, Sir Ben Kingsley
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